Associations to the word «Padauk»

Wiktionary

PADAUK, noun. The valuable timber of Pterocarpus, a pantropical genus of trees.

Dictionary definition

PADAUK, noun. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats